RE: linux & Oracle -- best combination

PostGresSQL has been out for years, and is not RedHat specific, all distributions have included it.

"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."

Christopher R. Spence
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Red Hat Oracle's preferred Linux distribution, right up until the time they announced the availability of the Red Hat Database (PostgreSQL)?

Brian

Christopher Spence wrote:

> I would be curious to see these tests going forward, seeing as RedHat
> support is difficult to do with 9i and such. And suse now being
> Oracle's perfered linux. I wonder if these results have changed. I
> never really played with Oracle on Linux, but if I ever had to, I
> would be curious.
>
> "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that
> way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their
> shoes."
>
> Christopher R. Spence
> Oracle DBA
> Phone: (978) 322-5744
> Fax: (707) 885-2275
>
> Fuelspot
> 73 Princeton Street
> North, Chelmsford 01863
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:53 PM
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>
> Lisa and others,
>
> About a year ago, I was working for a company as a Linux systems
> engineer (Read as: Tech guy doing sales support). Most of our
> customers wanted Linux systems, and it was my responsibility to
> provide them the correct combination of Linux and hardware to meet
> their needs. I had an ISO 9002 compliance to maintain as I provided
> testing and supporting data to our clients.
>
> My first test was RedHat linux 6.1 with Oracle 8.1.5. I don't have
> the benchmarks any more, but it worked the best.
>
> SCO Unix was bought by Caldera Linux and is not yet being implemented
> to the full capability (IMHO).
>
> Mandrake, SuSe, Storm were all tested as well, And had less
> satisfactory performance and reliability.
>
> Slackware 7 was the next best solution, followed by TurboLinux 6.
>
> All of these configurations were tested on the same machine,
> completely formatted and the same installation performed on each test
> cycle.
>
> I hope this is helpful information.
>
> Daniel Curry
> Systems Administrator
> CGtime, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:36 AM
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>
> Lisa
>
> SuSe is the best so I have been told. I am about to install 8i on 7.1
> and another guy here is installing 9i on 7.2.
>
> Totally untested on my behalf as I haven't started yet but that is the
> best I have been told.
>
> Probably of no use whatsoever !!!
>
> Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 21 August 2001 16:51
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> Sorry everyone, I know you were just discussing this recently. What is
> the most stable combination of Oracle & Linux? What would you
> recommend? I want to say the consensus was SCO Linux but I don't
> quite remember. Thank you
> Lara Croft
> Oracle Database Administrator
> Fairfield Resorts, Inc
>
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